Press Release
Health Policy Commission Releases Landmark Study Examining Challenges Facing Community Hospitals and Opportunities for Their Future
HPC identifies challenges facing community hospitals, details the critical role they play in the Commonwealth, and outlines the imperative of promoting a thriving community-based health care delivery system.
HPC Awards $11.3 Million in Investments through Health Care Innovation Program
Approved awards focus on innovative approaches to lowering costs and improving care, particularly for patient populations with the highest health care needs
HPC Statement on CHIA's Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System
Statement from Dr. Stuart H. Altman, Health Economist and Chair, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
Lynn Community Health Center Becomes Second Practice to Achieve PCMH PRIME Certification for Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care
HPC’s Patient-Centered Medical Home PRIME certification program recognizes practices that deliver comprehensive care by addressing both physical and behavioral health in the primary care setting.
Statement from David Seltz on New HPC Board Member
HPC welcomes Dr. Donald Berwick to the Board
HPC Survey on Health Care Innovation Investments
BOSTON — The HPC’s Health Care Innovation & Investment (HCII) Fund will invest $6 million in payer- and/or provider-led initiatives to implement promising care delivery and payment innovations that target the most persistent drivers of health care cost growth in Massachusetts. The HPC is currently designing this program and anticipates announcing a competitive application process in early 2016.
Health Policy Commission Receives Grant To Empower Consumers and Employers To Lower Health Care Costs
Funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will allow HPC to better understand what factors influence consumer choice of health care providers
Statement from Dr. Stuart Altman, Chair, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission on CHIA Report
BOSTON — “The CHIA report has mixed news, reporting both positive trends in the market and areas for concern, chief among them, that health care expenditures in the Commonwealth grew at a much higher rate than the cost growth benchmark, set by the Health Policy Commission last year at 3.6%.
Health Policy Commission Receives Funding in State Budget for Behavioral Health Pilots to Curb Opioid Abuse
Funding will improve patient care, reduce long term expenditures, and guide future health policy development